Description Of Egypt
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The Napoleonic Survey Of Egypt
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Author : Terence M. Russell
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2001
The Napoleonic Survey Of Egypt written by Terence M. Russell and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Egypt categories.
Napoleon Bonaparte celebrated his conquest of Egypt in 1798 by commissioning a survey of the country's treasures published as the Description de L'Egypte. An army of engravers collaborated with artist-illustrators over a thirty-year period to produce 900 folio engravings of huge proportions depicting the architecture, monuments and antiquities of ancient Egypt together with contemporary views of the country. Reproducing large sections of the original folio, this is the first book in English to provide an accessible and comprehensive account of the origins and creation of the Description de L'Egypte. Terence M. Russell draws upon numerous first-hand reports of the French exploration in order to re-evaluate the intellectual and artistic achievements of Napoleon's ambitious campaign. He shows how, different from anything else conceived at the time, the rich plethora of drawings and personal writings compiled by the intrepid French explorers opened European eyes to the diverse splendours of a long forgotten civilization, giving rise to the science of Egyptology.
The Description Of Egypt From Napoleon To Champollion
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Author : Tamar Sarfatti
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-12-01
The Description Of Egypt From Napoleon To Champollion written by Tamar Sarfatti and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-01 with History categories.
This book is the first study in English of the multi-volume set of texts and engravings of the Description of Egypt, a work produced following the three-year-long Egyptian campaign led by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1798. The book challenges the conventional and rather reductive interpretation of the Description that followed Edward Said's Orientalism, as a summation of an orientalist colonial project. It re-centres the Description in the much more complex and dynamic political and intellectual world of France of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century and its colonial aspirations. It follows closely the notes, texts, and illustrations of the contributors to the work, the majority of whom were graduates of the first years of the Polytechnic school in Paris, and the well-documented editing process that continued for almost thirty years, in which France moved from Revolution to Empire and Restoration. It shows the ways in which scholarly traditions and newly acquired skills interplay with Enlightenment texts, contemporary politics, and received ideas about antiquity, and how these were reinterpreted and modified – in texts and illustrations – through the encounter with the physical and social worlds of Ottoman Egypt. Using the rich repository of the Description of Egypt the book demonstrates the contribution of antiquarian methods of research to the emerging disciplines of the social sciences.
Description Of Egypt
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Author : Edward William Lane
language : en
Publisher: American Univ in Cairo Press
Release Date : 2000
Description Of Egypt written by Edward William Lane and has been published by American Univ in Cairo Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
The launching of this hitherto unpublished book by the great nineteenth-century British traveler Edward William Lane (1801-76), a name known to almost everyone in all the many fields of Middle East studies, is a major publishing event. Lane was the author of a number of highly influential works: An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians (1836), his translation of The Thousand and One Nights (1839-41), Selections from the Kur-an (1843), and the Arabic-English Lexicon (1863-93). Yet one of his greatest works was never published: after years of labor and despite an enthusiastic reception by the publishing firm of John Murray in 1831, publication of his first book, Description of Egypt, was delayed and eventually dropped, mainly for financial reasons. The manuscript was sold to the British Library by Lane's widow in 1891, and has only now been salvaged for publication by Dr. Jason Thompson, nearly 170 years after its completion. This enormously important book, which takes the form of a journey through Egypt from north to south, with descriptions of all the ancient monuments and contemporary life that Lane explored along the way, will be of immense interest to both ancient and modern historians of Egypt, and will become an essential companion to his Manners and Customs. ''Jason Thompson's exact and dedicated edition deserves much praise.''-Astene Newsletter, June 2002. ''Thompson, a historian at AUC, has done signal service in taking a manuscript dating from 1831 and preparing it for publication so many years later; AUC Press deserves praise for making so major a work available, and at so reasonable a price.''-Daniel Pipes, Middle East Quarterly, June 2001. ''In all, the appearance of this major work of scholarship at this late date is a major boon to the study of Egypt's history between the pharaohs and 18280.''-Daniel Pipes, Middle East Quarterly, June 2001.
Holding Egypt
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Author : Andrew Bednarski
language : en
Publisher: Golden House Publications
Release Date : 2005
Holding Egypt written by Andrew Bednarski and has been published by Golden House Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
Any person with an interest in the history of Egyptology quickly learns of the monumental Description de l'Egypte, a result of research undertaken by French scholars during Napoleon's invasion of Egypt in 1798. The starting point for this study is the long-standing belief, particularly visible in English literature, that this nineteenth-century French corpus was the first point in the development of Egyptology. Yet despite this oft-repeated belief, the issues of where exactly the work went, or what people made of it have yet to be explored. This book attempts to test the broad notion that the Description was the seminal point in the development of Egyptology by exploring its reception in Great Britain, in the early nineteenth century.
Modern Egypt And Thebes
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Author : John Gardner Wilkinson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1843
Modern Egypt And Thebes written by John Gardner Wilkinson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1843 with Egypt categories.
Modern Egypt And Thebes
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Author : John Gardner Wilkinson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1843
Modern Egypt And Thebes written by John Gardner Wilkinson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1843 with Egypt categories.
Egypt In 1800
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Author : Robert Anderson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
Egypt In 1800 written by Robert Anderson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Architecture categories.
"The Description de l'Egypte was the fruit of researches carried out by the Commissio of Artd and science set by Napoleon during his egyptian campaign ..." Front jacket flap.
Description Of Egypt
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Author : Edward William Lane
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-10
Description Of Egypt written by Edward William Lane and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10 with History categories.
The great nineteenth-century British traveler Edward William Lane (1801-76) was the author of a number of highly influential works. In 1831, publication of one of his greatest works, Description of Egypt was dropped, mainly for financial reasons, by the publishing firm of John Murray. The manuscript was sold to the British Library by Lane's widow in 1891, and was salvaged for publication as a hardcover book by Jason Thompson, nearly 170 years later. Now available in paperback, this book takes the form of a journey through Egypt from north to south, with descriptions of all the ancient monuments and contemporary life that Lane explored along the way.
Description Of Egypt
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Author : Edward William Lane
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1825
Description Of Egypt written by Edward William Lane and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1825 with categories.
A History Of Egypt
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Author : Jason Thompson
language : en
Publisher: American Univ in Cairo Press
Release Date : 2008
A History Of Egypt written by Jason Thompson and has been published by American Univ in Cairo Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.
No country's past can match Egypt's in antiquity, richness, and variety. Rarely, however, is this nation's history presented as a comprehensive panorama, since scholars tend to divide it into distinct eras-pharaonic, Greco-Roman, Coptic, medieval Islamic, Ottoman, and modern-that are rarely studied in connection to each other, despite the strong elements of continuity running through all of these periods. But here, historian Jason Thompson has written a cohesive account of Egypt's millennia-long past. In A History of Egypt, readers are offered a sure guide through the sometimes labyrinthine corridors of Egypt's past, from the mysterious predynastic kingdoms to the post-modern nation-state of the twenty-first century. The author addresses central scholarly issues such as how Egyptian history can be treated as a whole and how the west has shaped prevailing images of it, both through direct contact and through the lens of western scholarship. Drawing on current historical scholarship as well his own research, Jason Thompson has written a remarkable work of synthesis and concision, offering students, travelers, and general readers alike an engaging one-volume narrative of the extraordinarily long course of human history by the Nile.